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Re: Obscure languages

From:Tristan Alexander McLeay <zsau@...>
Date:Saturday, September 29, 2001, 7:28
At 04.52 p.m. 29.09.2001, you wrote:
>----- Original Message ----- >From: "Frank George Valoczy" <valoczy@...> >To: <CONLANG@...> >Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 10:52 PM >Subject: Re: Obscure languages > > > > If you want, I can help you with learning Votian > > (Uralic/Finno-Ugric/Balto-Finnic; spoken by approx. 25 people in 5 > > villages [incl. Krakolye and Luzhitsy] in Leningrad Oblast, north of > > Ivangorod in Russia), youngest speaker is in his early 60s). Obviously I'm > > not a native speaker, but my knowledge of it is thorough enough that I > > could carry on a conversation with a Vote in the unlikely event that I > > were to meet one. However, I do use it occasionally in speaking with > > Estonians, sometimes with amusing results. > > > > >Yes, I'd love that!, how can you help?
Can I join in the fun too? Tristan

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